Turkey on its way to snap elections: a political gamble?
The impossibility of forming a stable government in Turkey following the 7 June elections has led the ruling AKP to call snap elections for 1 November.
Future of Europe
Pro-independence parties win the Catalan regional elections
Pro-independence parties won an absolute majority of seats in the elections for the regional parliament of Catalonia, but just under half the votes. The Catalan issue is going to run for a very long time.
Few lights in the darkness: The Future of the Euro by Matthijs and Blyth
An extraordinary book on the Euro and its future paths. It analysis the multifaceted and complex dimensions of the Eurozone crisis from a variety of angles.
The disgrace of trading refugee quotas
But to offer those opposing refugee quotas an ‘easy way out’ simply further diminishes the idea of solidarity in the European Union, both inward and outward.
Savage continent: the longer term will not resolve the shorter
Europe is forgetting where it has come from: a savage continent, but also the one that gave birth to the Enlightenment and Human Rights.
EULEX: a mission in need of reform and with no end in sight
The EU’s once ambitious EULEX (European Union Rule of Law in Kosovo Mission) needs to be reformed so that it can put an end to its presence in Kosovo after having helped strengthen the Rule of Law.
Intentionally or otherwise, Schäuble has killed off the prospect of a Grexit
The hard-line taken by the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, and the subsequent U-turn by the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, has paradoxically reduced any real potential for a Grexit to take place.
Bad is better than worst, but Europe has lost out in the endeavour
The Eurozone, and by extension the EU adn Europe, has avoided a serious trip-up with Greece, although the danger is by no means past.
Give Greece a chance… again
Angela Merkel must not amputate the Greeks from the eurozone.
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